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Thailand on Saturday (March 26) reported 26,234 new COVID-19 cases, 20,013 recoveries and 67 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Saturday’s cases bring the total number of COVID-19 infections in Thailand to 3,503,264 with 24,715 deaths.

 

The news comes as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to propose a plan for Songkran celebrations including the permission to splash water at the next meeting of the Communicable Disease Committee on Monday, March 28th.

 

Bangkok Permanent Secretary Kajit Chatchawanich told the Associated Press that the Culture, Sports, and Tourism Department would present details of the activities for the Songkran Festival, previously proposed by all governments, private sectors, and entrepreneurs working in Khao San Road and Silom Road, to the Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee meeting which is scheduled on Monday afternoon.**

 

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And another minor bump upwards in cases they want us to see, but yet there is no more indications of any from the prisons which seem to have escaped Omicron.....very strange really.

Saturday, March 26, 2022 Update

 

26,234 newly reported official COVID cases classified as:

--26,198 domestic patients

--36 travelers from abroad

 

An increase from 26,050 official new cases reported yesterday, but below the year's high thus far of 27,071 from March 18. An increase from the 25,804 new cases reported one week ago

 

A total of 1,279,829 official COVID cases (since Jan. 1, 2022)

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250,265 COVID patients currently being treated, a new record high for 2022, and up from the 244,111 reported yesterday

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67 new COVID deaths, down 2 from 69 yesterday, and the second consecutive day of declining deaths

 

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1,615 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition with pneumonia, down 4 from the yearly high 1,619 reported yesterday

 

COVID cases hospitalized and requiring intubation to breathe rose by 10 to 640, setting a new record high for the year

 

Nationwide average of 21 people per province (77 provinces) hospitalized in serious condition with COVID

 

National hospital bed occupancy rate of 27.5%

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20,013 COVID cases newly recovered

 

1,059,790 total recovered COVID cases (since Jan. 1, 2022)

 

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/thaimoph/posts/285635677074900

 

[translation]

 

BMA launches 1st dose of COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 5-11 years

 

COVID-19 Vaccination Center, Bangkok Wesn Sports Building 1

 

Bangkok Youth Center (Thailand-Japan) Launching service for vaccination against COVID-19, 1st dose, Pfizer vaccine (orange cap) for children aged 5-11 years.

✅ Children who study outside the school system or students who have not been vaccinated at any injection site before
✅ No underlying disease
✅ Parents bring the child on the day of vaccination.

 

Book through the QueQ app and Walk in.

 

Starting from March 26 - April 10, 2022 from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/529263188692010

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 26,234 official new infections. 67 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 21,697 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 47,931

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 24th March

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

 

 

 

COVID cases hospitalized and requiring intubation to breathe rose by 10 to 640, setting a new record high for the year

 

Total official and unofficial COVID cases, the latter via positive ATK tests, reached 48,131 on Saturday, up from a comparable figure of 42,462 one week ago

 

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

Infection numbers dont matter anymore! People has comment 2 years now this number's how "fake" they are, only what matters is how many die or are in hospital at moment! Western world has open everything and stop all restrictions whitout caring about infection numbers! If health care can haddle the current situation then infection numbers dont matter sht! Every more wise than commentator here has already point out that EVERYBODY GOING TO GET THAT ONE so who care what the numbers are if health care haddle!

5 hours ago, 2 is 1 said:

Infection numbers dont matter anymore! People has comment 2 years now this number's how "fake" they are, only what matters is how many die or are in hospital at moment! Western world has open everything and stop all restrictions whitout caring about infection numbers! If health care can haddle the current situation then infection numbers dont matter sht! Every more wise than commentator here has already point out that EVERYBODY GOING TO GET THAT ONE so who care what the numbers are if health care haddle!

You do notice that the number of serious cases is increasing, right?

7 hours ago, 2 is 1 said:

If health care can haddle the current situation then infection numbers dont matter

Tell that to the estimated 100 million former COVID cases afflicted by this: (It's NOT just about whether hospitals have the capability to handle all the current COVID cases. The problems don't end when the people are discharged from the hospital...)

 

Long COVID, the next frontier for vaccine and drug developers

 

"Major drug companies, including leading COVID-19 vaccine developers, have joined efforts to discover a potential treatment for long COVID, a condition affecting over 100 million people globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

 

Long COVID is marked by hundreds of different symptoms such as fatigue, chest pain, and brain fog lasting more than three months. It affects people who had both mild and severe COVID-19, including children.

...

Meanwhile, Boston, Massachusetts-based clinical-stage biotherapeutics company, PureTech Health (PRTC) is advancing a mid-stage trial for an investigational pulmonary fibrosis therapy to target long-term lung scarring associated with COVID.

 

(more)

 

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3817601-long-covid-the-newest-target-of-vaccine-and-drug-developers

 

 

March 25 update:

 

Asian COVID hot spots show signs of improvement

 

--Hong Kong, battling a COVID wave that has led to a surge in deaths in unvaccinated older people, today reported 10,405 new cases and 192 more deaths, according to the Centre for Health Protection. The number of daily cases has been declining since about the second week of March.

 

--In Vietnam, cases are showing signs of decline, with the 7-day average for daily cases down 27% compared to the week before, according to VN Express.

 

--Elsewhere, South Korea's daily cases today dropped below 400,000 for the second day in a row.

 

(more)

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/03/asian-covid-hot-spots-show-signs-improvement

 

COVID-19 vaccines not tied to adverse pregnancy outcomes

 

Two studies published yesterday in JAMA, one from Sweden and Norway and one from Ontario, find no link between COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and adverse outcomes.

...

"We’re still seeing that vaccination rates are lower than in the rest of the population, so it’s likely that there’s some concern about how the vaccines affect the pregnant individual and the fetus," co-first author Anne Ortqvist Rosin, MD, PhD, said in a Karolinska Institute press release. "The results are reassuring and can hopefully make pregnant individuals more willing to get vaccinated."

 

(more)

 

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/03/covid-19-vaccines-not-tied-adverse-pregnancy-outcomes

 

 

The U.S. CDC has updated their findings for February during the Omicron pandemic that compare COVID hospitalization rates for the unvaccinated vs fully vaccinated vs boosted, as follows:  (in short, it pays to get boosted!)

 

Boosted vs unvaccinated:

 

Fully vaccinated vs unvaccinated:

 

Source link

 

"COVID-NET is a population-based surveillance system that collects data on laboratory-confirmed COVID-19-associated hospitalizations among children and adults through a network of over 250 acute-care hospitals in 14 states. Additional data on vaccination status for individual cases are collected and available from COVID-NET catchment areas in 13 of the 14 states.

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These data were posted on March 24, 2022 and reflect hospitalizations through February 26, 2022. COVID-NET hospitalizations data are preliminary and subject to change as more data become available."

 

The following is a narrower snapshot of the same data just for the most recently available week:

 

Age-Adjusted Rates of COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations by Vaccination Status in Adults Ages ≥18 Years - per 100,000 population:

 

Sunday, March 27, 2022 Update

 

25,821 newly reported official COVID cases classified as:

--25,765 domestic patients

--56 travelers from abroad

 

A decrease from 26,234 official new cases reported yesterday (not uncommon for weekend reports), and below the year's high thus far of 27,071 from March 18. An increase from the 24,996 new cases reported one week ago

 

A total of 1,305,650 official COVID cases (since Jan. 1, 2022)

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251,936 COVID patients currently being treated, a new record high for 2022, and up from the prior record 250,265 reported yesterday

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84 new COVID deaths, up from 67 yesterday, just below the daily record high for COVID deaths during 2022 of 88 on March 21

 

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1,672 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition with pneumonia, setting a new daily record high for 2022 and passing the prior yearly high of 1,619 reported two days ago

 

Nationwide average of 22 people per province (77 provinces) hospitalized in serious condition with COVID

 

The number of currently hospitalized COVID patients requiring intubation to breathe rose again by 4 to 644, setting a new daily record for 2022.

 

National hospital bed occupancy rate of 27.6%

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24,066 COVID cases newly recovered

 

1,083,856 total recovered COVID cases (since Jan. 1, 2022)

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/529877851963877

 

37 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Sunday, March 27, 2022 Update

 

25,821 newly reported official COVID cases classified as:

--25,765 domestic patients

--56 travelers from abroad

 

A decrease from 26,234 official new cases reported yesterday (not uncommon for weekend reports), and below the year's high thus far of 27,071 from March 18. An increase from the 24,996 new cases reported one week ago

 

A total of 1,305,650 official COVID cases (since Jan. 1, 2022)

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251,936 COVID patients currently being treated, a new record high for 2022, and up from the prior record 250,265 reported yesterday

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84 new COVID deaths, up from 67 yesterday, just below the daily record high for COVID deaths during 2022 of 88 on March 21

 

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1,672 COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition with pneumonia, setting a new daily record high for 2022 and passing the prior yearly high of 1,619 reported two days ago

 

Nationwide average of 22 people per province (77 provinces) hospitalized in serious condition with COVID

 

National hospital bed occupancy rate of 27.6%

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24,066 COVID cases newly recovered

 

1,083,856 total recovered COVID cases (since Jan. 1, 2022)

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/posts/529877851963877

 

Week on Week increase for the weekend numbers show that this is still in an upward climb.  How we could only wish that this government was transparent and tested like many of the other Asean countries.  This continual up and down just indicates that they are trying to keep a lid on the overall numbers in order to assist with their strategy and appearance of having it under control.

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Week on Week increase for the weekend numbers show that this is still in an upward climb.  How we could only wish that this government was transparent and tested like many of the other Asean countries. 

 

That's why I've been regularly including the week prior comparison whenever talking about daily case counts... ????

 

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An increase from the 24,996 new cases reported one week ago

 

And, in that same direction, the govt lately has started producing a regular two-weeks past chart showing the daily trends for key indicators -- serious hospitalizations, intubations, deaths and weekly average case counts.

 

That's a good and useful chart. I hope they continue to produce it daily. So we can continue  to post it here.

 

 

PCR test positive cases, total of 25,821 official new infections. 84 official covid deaths recorded.

 

Rapid tests positive cases, 22,476 bringing the total of PCR and ATK results to 48,297

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/

 

OWD rolling 7 day average, cases and deaths up to 25th March

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/thailand

 

 

 

 

The number of currently hospitalized COVID patients requiring intubation to breathe rose again by 4 to 644, setting a new daily record for 2022.

 

The current number of COVID patients hospitalized in serious condition has now risen three-fold since the start of the year, while the number of intubated COVID patients has increased four-fold.

 

Both figures continue to set new daily record highs for the year on an almost daily basis.

 

 

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=main

 

For added context, during the peak of the Delta wave last fall, Thailand's daily COVID case count topped out at 23,418, but the numbers of serious hospital cases and intubated patients peaked above 5,600 and 1,100 respectively, and daily deaths topped 300 for a brief period.

 

@TallGuyJohninBKK, and @Bkk Brian the information you provide is very much appreciated same with @anchadian.

Two week COVID trends chart (March 14-27) from MoPH:

 

From left to right: serious COVID cases hospitalized, COVID cases requiring intubation, new daily COVID deaths, and 14-day average new daily COVID cases.

 

Everything but new deaths continuing a pretty steady upward trend.

 

https://www.facebook.com/informationcovid19/photos/a.106455480972785/529969431954719/?type=3

 

In red at the bottom of the middle graph, MoPH is saying 83 of Sunday's newly reported 84 COVID deaths were either age 60 and older (73), or, were under age 60 but had some of eight identified risk factor chronic conditions (10).

 

Also, that 77 of the 84 deaths (almost 92%) had not received their third dose COVID booster shot, meaning the other 7 had.

 

A separate MoPH chart said the median age of Sunday's new COVID deaths was 76 (meaning half the cases were older and the other half were younger), with a range of 6 to 104  years.

 

As is usual, we never are told what happened with the circumstances of the COVID death of a 6-year-old.

 

I wonder what the breakdown by province looks like?

6 hours ago, fusion58 said:

I wonder what the breakdown by province looks like?

Can see each province on this page, just select from the right hand tab.

 

https://ddc.moph.go.th/covid19-dashboard/?dashboard=province

Thailand reports 24,635 new COVID-19 cases, 81 deaths, 25,753 recoveries

 

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Thailand on Monday (March 28) reported 24,635 new COVID-19 cases, 25,753 recoveries and 81 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1254869-thailand-reports-24635-new-covid-19-cases-81-deaths-25753-recoveries/

 

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